The consumer reach of Coca-Cola’s largest bottler will nearly double through the European bottler’s acquisition of an Australian bottler that sells alcoholic beverages and has access to growth markets in Asia and India, a bond rating company reported Monday.
Author Archives: David Pendered
David Pendered, Managing Editor, is an Atlanta journalist with more than 30 years experience reporting on the region’s urban affairs, from Atlanta City Hall to the state Capitol. Since 2008, he has written for print and digital publications, and advised on media and governmental affairs. Previously, he spent more than 26 years with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and won awards for his coverage of schools and urban development. David graduated from North Carolina State University and was a Western Knight Center Fellow.
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As mayoral campaign launches, Mayor Bottoms’ carceral reforms scrutinized
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ two major criminal justice reform efforts face rising scrutiny from the Atlanta City Council as her reelection campaign gets underway.
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Earth Day, BP gulf oil spill observed as new challenge emerges at Apalachicola Bay
Earth Day and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This week’s recognition of these events occurs as polar opposite human interventions are unfolding around Florida’s Apalachicola Bay.
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‘Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence:’ New book is sweeping in scope, precise in detail
A new book by three Atlanta urban planners examines the collaboration by public and private sectors to prepare the city to host the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
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National spotlight shines on South River as example of environmental injustice
The South River’s designation as an example of environmental injustice on American Rivers’ list of 10 most endangered rivers arrives as the nation focuses attention on Georgia for its revised and restrictive elections law.
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Pivoting in the pandemic: Tech firm shifts from smart buildings to PPE, back again
The pandemic survival story of an Alpharetta-based tech firm is one of pivoting from a product line that was no longer needed to one in demand, and which played to the strength of the company’s international relations.
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Coal ash battle alive in Ga. Court of Appeals, new ‘Rising from the Ashes’ video
The campaign to remediate coal ash in Georgia is now active in two venues: A court that will help influence if customers or shareholders pay a $525 million cleanup bill; and a persuasion campaign built around a new video documentary.
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Ryan White funds for HIV care in pipeline as COVID-19 risks continue
As the CDC establishes the COVID-19 risks for persons living with HIV, metro Atlanta is on track to receive $28 million in federal funding to continue for a year HIV treatment programs for low-income residents in 20 counties.
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Slice of Americana, an engineering marvel, to be replicated across Chattahoochee River
An engineering marvel of a bygone era will be retained in Rogers Bridge as its replacement is built across the Chattahoochee River to connect parks in Fulton and Gwinnett counties.
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The Gulch: Consultants line up for contract to rebuild MARTA’s Five Points Station
MARTA has started the process of transforming the Five Points Station into a transportation hub to serve the planned mini city to be built at The Gulch.
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Community Improvement Districts could tap Internet of Things to expand services
After fostering more than $6 billion in development in metro Atlanta, the question of “what’s next” for the region’s community improvement districts is one subject of a new evaluation of CIDs that was released as their funding faces an uncertain future.
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Sally Sears hopes travel memoir offers ‘good medicine for the pandemic’
Sally Sears’ latest big story is her own travel memoir, an around-the-world journey by a budding journalist in the era when Rick Steves was just beginning to tell travelers to get off the beaten path.
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Sacred site to be declared at Chattahoochee Brick Co.
The grounds of the Chattahoochee Brick Co. are to be designated Saturday as a sacred site in a ceremony supported by a number of local and national advocates for civil and human rights.
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Metro ATL home prices up 9.6% in past year as fewer folks own their home: reports
Two closely watched reports paint a piercing picture of housing affordability in metro Atlanta – home prices are up 9.6% in the past 12 months, and the proportion of residents who own their home is falling at a rate that leads the nation.
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Clark Atlanta University unveils renovated Harkness Hall Quadrangle Gate Entrance
Clark Atlanta University on Monday unveiled the new Harkness Hall Quadrangle Gate Entrance, the latest step in the renovation of the historic campus.
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Extracting natural resources from natural wonders: Okefenokee Swamp, Pamlico River
AURORA, N.C. – The world’s largest phosphate mine and chemical plant operates in the nation’s largest lagoonal estuary. This area in eastern North Carolina bears watching as Georgia officials review a proposal to mine sand from the edge of the nation’s largest blackwater swamp – Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.
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MARTA at forefront of Biden, D.C. focus on transit to reduce climate change
As Congress and the Biden administration look to mass transit to help curb greenhouse gas emissions and ease climate change, MARTA’s work to reduce its carbon footprint with CNG- and battery-fueled buses is being recognized nationally.
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Cousins Properties facilitates removal of Confederate statue from Peachtree Street
Cousins Properties has succeeded in its call for the swift removal of a statue of a Confederate cavalryman who later was the first president of a predecessor of Norfolk Southern Railway. The statue is at the gateway of the building in Midtown Cousins purchased from Norfolk Southern.
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Plant Vogtle’s latest delay prompts negative comment on Georgia Power: Moody’s
This story has been updated with comments from Georgia Power.
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Georgia Tech earns top credit rating despite headwinds facing higher ed sector
Georgia Tech has received the top tier credit rating on an upcoming bond issue despite challenges facing the nation’s higher education sector as the pandemic remakes the college experience.
